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Show 10GDENITES IN A SNOW STORM Newspaper Man and Mining Engineer Travel in a Nevada Blizzard to Reach a Mining Cnmp Are Royally Welcomed by Generous Gen-erous Miners Find a Promising Outlook for Bullion Ore Is Being Shipped LI ' Last week there arrlvod in Ogden j Chas. D, McNeill, a miner from Bullion, Bul-lion, Elko county. Nevada. He brought with him a grip hill of oro that assayed ' ?30 10 $110 per ton In silver, lead and copper. Ho had specimens showing all colors of tho rainbow, and boiiio colors tho rainbow never produced. In less than 24 hours Mr MoNoill had a half dozen Ogdenitcs small millionaires mil-lionaires So emphatic was ho in describing de-scribing the great prospect of a mine, with, millions in sight, that It only " required the price of several railroad " tickets to coax a mining engineer and I a newspaper reporter to tho field before be-fore McNeill's vision should disappear. disap-pear. R. B. Clapp, a mlulng expert, and a fraduatc from the Colorado school of mlnos, and a special repro-fiontatlo repro-fiontatlo of the Standard found themselves them-selves Friday morning, nt Elko, Nev , whore tho pernovoring and energetic i MrTCnltl mpt thnm with n ulnlch and 1 a pair of Australian mules, and soon they were off for Bullion. 2S miles southwest of Elko, where the modem wonder was to bo shown fo tho naked oyo of the Ogden tenderfoot and the mining engineer from Colorado The little mulei started out on a run and covered the filM mile In less than three minutes, but In less than 30 minutes tho two inches of snow turned Into six Inches anJ, to add lo tho enjoyment of tho sleigh ride, It eooii started to snow, and boforo half tho distance had been covered a regular reg-ular Noxada snowstorm was in full blast It was the Intention to lako dinnor at Bullion, but at the noon hour the snow had grown to a depth of 12 inches, with the flakes falling thicker thick-er than leaves in fall and with a greater increased dopth as tho wonder won-der seekers ncared the mountains Six o'clock In the evening found no lunch or dinner, with the mules plowing plow-ing a double bob-nled through three feet of snow. At 7 o'clock In the evening the east end of Bullion came into view and the mules decided to quit for tho night. Bullion Is only 2 miles long from east to west Luckily Luck-ily our first atop, with tho consent of our long-eared friends, was in front of the homo of Daniel Frank, foreman fore-man of tho Bunker Hill Mining company, com-pany, who, also, by the grace of Tnclc Sam, nets as postmaster Frank had a steaming supper on tho table and invited us to onjoj his hospitality, and never were three strangers more at homo than while enjoying the hospitality hos-pitality of M3nc Hoet Frank and wife But a ruio shock came whon ho advised ad-vised us that he had plenty to eat, but had no extra bods, as all were engaged for that nifiht, but that a half mile up tho canyon was a good night's rest waiting for us It was out of the quoBtion. to hitch up the mules again, becauso they had been placed in a barn, and anyhow had refused to go further- The nlgbt was dark, tho mountain "wind was singing tunes as it whistled through tho trees With a borrowed larctcrn two weary Og-denltcs Og-denltcs followed Minor McNeill as ho broke the trail In three feet of snow Talk about long half miles, that half mllo up Bullion canyon on Friday night, January 12, 1912, was at leaat ten miles long Finally, however, a light in a window presented Itself to view, which our guide assured us was only 150 feet away, but It required just 40 minutes to walk the 150 feet. At last "wo reached the mining cab-ing cab-ing of the Nevada Mining companv, and, In response to the barking of dogs, A. R Caton, the foreman for the company, opened the door and said: "Hello, Snowstorm Consolidated! Como in " Mr. Caton is a typical western miner, min-er, chock-full of fun and hospitality. A red hot flro and warm room soon made ub comfortable and their clothes were permitted to dry behind tho stove, while tho lucky Ogdenltcs were put to bed In tho bungalow bun-galow occupied by the president of the company during the summer months This bungalow consists of six or sevon rooms with all the mod-er mod-er accessories, fine spring beds, clean linen, arm chairs, rocking chairs, etc Yes, it was heaven for a mining camp. Early thc next morning the Ogdenltcs Ogden-ltcs wcro seen going up a mountain, bucking the snow three feet dcop, and whor0 Itj bad drifted, often up to tho armpits Finally the mine- wns reached and a bnsy day was put in taking samples, and Saturday night found tho Ogdenites down at tho bungalow again where the genial and generous Caton had supper rcad for tho visitors. Jameb Burk, a son "from old Ireland, is the chief cook at tho Bungalow cnmp, and he naked thc visitors how early thev would like breakfast- Tho newspaperman said, 5 o"clock, with a wink at Engineer Clapp. Jimmy Burk must havo seen th0 wink for he rousted tho visltora out of bed Sunday morning at 4 o'clock and, promptly at G, the Og-donltes Og-donltes started for home, arriving at Elko for dlnnor and aro duo In Ogden sometime Monday. Engineer R. E Clapp took about forty samples. What the result of any tests to bo made will bo no ono, of course can foretell. The Bullion Mining camp dates from 1870 and has had its ups and downs since then A number of mines aro being worked, and some very high grado ore is being shipped ship-ped to Murray and Garfield, Utah. Among the miners seen by your reporters were tho following: Foreman A. R. Caton, William Graham and James Burk, at tho Nevada Ne-vada Mining company, a copper property. James Valentine, Thomas Madden, and Col Reat at the Sylvania mine, a lead and silver property. C. D McNeill, foreman. C. J Har vey, superintendent, Robt. Glbbs, Wm Roberts, and John Hassell of tho Mayflower Alpine company, a copper, silver and lead property. Daniel Frank, foreman, and Fred Davis superintendent of tho Bunker Hill company, a lead, silver and copper cop-per propertty. This company already al-ready has taken and shipped high grade ores allied at over $3,000,000. Jim Alberry and Amos Elliott are working tho Blackbird group, and Philllpps brothers aro doVelopIng a copper property Others ar0 working claims but their names could not bo learned Many of thc miners are sacking high grade ores, waiting for and opportunity op-portunity To ship The Bunker Hill property roado a shipment of fourteen cars of ore some time ago and pocketed poc-keted $10,000 for same. Old Bullion district has jielded millions of dollars la thc past and may do so again AH tho knockere, however, do not live in Ogden The city of Elko, possesses somo The mining property prop-erty examined Is a fino prospect, In fact much better than usually seen, but somo of the Elko peoplo do not hesitate to knock It. |
